| Quotes |
Topic |
| Doubt | The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself. |
| Education | What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books. |
| Endurance | Endurance is patience concentrated. |
| England | Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air! |
| England | A certain man has called us, "of all peoples the wisest in action," but he added, "the stupidest in speech." |
| Epitaphs | This Mirabeau's work, then is done. He sleeps with the primeval giants. He has gone over to the majority: "Abiit ad plures." |
| Eyes | In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing. |
| Eyes | Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. |
| Faith | To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes. |
| Fame | Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property of a man. |
| Fame | Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles. |
| Fame | When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. |
| Fame | After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. |
| Fault | The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. |
| Faults | The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. |
| Gain | Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do. |
| Genius | Genius . . . means the transcendent capacity of taking trouble. |
| Goodness | No good Book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first. |
| Government | In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government. |
| Gravity | It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe. |
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